The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-04-03
YEECH TO BE ARRESTED.
4 STEP THAT MAY HELP SOLVE RAH-
WAYS MURDER MYSTERY.

be Learned.
RAHwA1, April 2.-[Special1-The scene
OF the horrible butchery of young woman
OF Friday night of last week, is on the out
skirts Of the city Central avenue, by the
side Of which the mangled csrpse was
found, extends southwark from the city
proper into the suburbs. Milton avense
runs parallel with it and probably six or
seven hundred feet distant from it, on the
east. Milton avenue derives its name from
hungry looking little settlement that
feathers its southern extremity at Jefferson
avenue. Jefferson avenue extends east and
west and crosses both Central and Milton
avenues Milton is a little line Of humble
homes, extending for block along Milton
avenue to the Jefferson avenue corner.
A hundred feet down from Milton avenue
towards Central avenue on Jefferson there
is PLAIN wooden bridge. 1t crosses
branch of the Railway river that, little
further north, turns by gentle
curve to the westward and cuts
throuf b Central avenue, where it is also
crossed by a bridge. The body was found
on the edge of q woods on Central avenue
lust south of Jefferson avenue At Mil
ton avenue. corner of jefferson avenue, is
one-story brick grocery store kept by
man named Brunt. Across the street from
him is an old tenement occupied b. tue
Froat family, and some others. Gong
down Jefferson avenue, and into Central ,
avenue, and past the place where the BODY
was discovered, you come to the handsome
residence Of DIR. Merritt, who is now in
Florida with his family. ice Rifles, fam
hand, is in charge of 1t now 1t is said
INV mill Il ntsec
from him.
A one-eyed roustabout named Keech who
loves teddy more than work, had been en-
ployed ON one of the farms near by. He
ha. been married, but his wife had disap
peared, no one knows how. He says he
advertised for her but could find no trace
of her Chief Keron says she has been
found on Blackwel's Island; but he de-
clines to say on whose authority
he pronounces the woman to be
the one who was Keech's wife.
While he was at service, Keech recently
appeared in the town with woman of
loose morals whom melody knew. He
went on spree with her, and both got
drunk, on her money. She had roll, and
he had more. About the time he quit his
place man wens to a stove store to buy
stove He said his wife had gone from hl1n,
but that he intended to start house
keeping with girl from Castle Garden.
'sWkas is the use," he asked, =" of having
wife when you can get your pick of girls
from Castle Garden?" The stoys-kseper
cannot say Whistler the would be purchaser
had bad eye or not. Keech's is on the
left side of his nose, and the stove maBsaw
only the right side of his sastom er's face.
No steve vas purchased at that time; but
little later. q man who is known to be
Keeeh, bought stove from Sam. Tice, one
of the villagers, and had it moved into |
Froats house. Ksech had hired room |
there. But Froat had stove that answered |
Keech's purpsse. and Tice afterwards took
his stove out.
A story is current that one day last week,
early, young emigrant girl made her APP
pearance il the Froat-Keech household.
No one saw her come. But the Brunt boys
once saw her hanging clothes in the yard,
and afterwards saw her with money that |
she proposed to purchase wagon with |
from them for Keech. She was only casu-
ally known, however, and it would have |
taken but little change in her al pearance |
to have made her Identification by them |
impossible.
Fricay evening, at about nine o'clock, |
some people who were outside heard |
piteous groans from the jefferson and !
Central avenue corners, and all the dogs |
in the neighborhood began to bay and |
how - kept tie keen-nosed watch dog
on Merritts place. That this animal should |
have been silent when the Young's dogs
on the place beyond were wild with ex-
citement arouses comment. Keech and
the Froats had gone to bed, they them
selves declare, but 10 Rifles, and man
from the Keech household were PLAYING
cards at the time in one of the looms in
the Merritt house. So they say at least,
The next morningathe body of the dead
woman was found lying by the Central
avenue road side near Jefferson avenue.
It was that apparently of German en-
igrant. Her clothing indicated that she
had not been long in the country. Her
face had been stamped on SO that those
who had only casually known her might
She had not been outraged
The prints OF bloody fingers in her
dress pocket indicate that robbery had
been the motion of the slayer. Her pock ct
book Is gone. Nota cent was found upon
her indicating that she had carried q
pocket book. She had not come to the
spot by the country roads. They had been
very muddy all Friday, but there was no
mud on her shoes. If she went to the
place that proved to be her grave that
night, how happens it that no one saw her?
A woman trudging along the streets
at s or 9 o'clock at night with valise in her
hand, would certainly have attracted some
ones attention. She could not have gone
to the spot except through the village of
Milton or through the thickly settled
portion of the City proper. Some
one is always moving around the town at
that time OF the evening, and the facs that
no one met this poor friendless girl shows
that she did not come into Railway, on the
night of her death, for the first time. The
prints of her feet in the soft earth on Cen
traI avenue show that she approached the
place from Jefferson avenue, which runs
up into the village of Milton. The prin